West Africa, Madagascar, Southeast Asia and many other regions have experienced lower revenue because of declining timber harvests.

The WHO estimates that 100 – 140 million women and girls around the world have experienced the procedure, including 92 million in Africa.

However, following the Sharpeville massacre in 1960, South Africa experienced significant outflows of foreign exchange on the capital account of the Balance of Payments and instituted an additional level of capital controls, known as the Blocked Rand system.

The bombardment was the heaviest barrage yet experienced in North Africa, which created panic in the inexperienced soldiers of the Italian 60th Infantry Division Sabratha who had only just occupied sketchy defences in the sector.

Dark skin probably evolved after humans lost their body fur, because the naked skin was vulnerable to the strong UV radiation as would be experienced in Africa.

Genetic evidence suggests that common hippos in Africa experienced a marked population expansion during or after the Pleistocene Epoch, attributed to an increase in water bodies at the end of the era.

WNV is now considered to be an endemic pathogen in Africa, Asia, Australia, the Middle East, Europe and in the United States, which in 2012 has experienced one of its worst epidemics.

One such thesis, largely based on oral tradition, posits that the Tutsi experienced some admixture with or were partially descended from migrants of Caucasoid stock, who usually were said to have arrived in the Great Lakes region from the Horn of Africa and / or North Africa.

He himself was again replaced in his military post in June by Auchinleck, who by this point had also experienced setbacks in North Africa.

OPIC supports U. S. foreign policy objectives by encouraging development in regions that have experienced instability or conflict, yet offer promising growth opportunities, such as the Middle East and North Africa, sub ‐ Saharan Africa, and Southeast Asia.

Countries that have experienced a fertility decline of over 40 % from their pre-transition levels include: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Panama, Jamaica, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Surinam, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Lebanon, South Africa, India, Saudi Arabia, and many Pacific islands.

The area has been volcanically active for millions of years — after South America and Africa were split apart by plate tectonics about 110 million years ago, West Africa also experienced rifting, although to a lesser degree.

The Spanish city of Melilla in Northern Africa experienced an economic boom at the turn of the 19th to 20th century, and its new bourgeoisie showed its riches by massively ordering Modernista buildings.

* India, the Philippines, South Africa and Mauritius have experienced rapid growth in IT services, such as call centers, back-office functions and software development

Arriving in North Africa in June 1942, the new 51st Highland Division experienced its first battle at El Alamein ( October – November 1942 ).

With one armoured and two infantry brigades, the division was well organised for mobile warfare as experienced in North Africa.

In June 2012, the Toronto city council voted to condemn the phrase " Israeli apartheid ," as part of a resolution recognizing the gay Pride Toronto parade as a “ significant cultural event that strongly promotes the ideals of tolerance and diversity .” The resolution said it slams the term Israel Apartheid for undermining the values of Pride and diminishing “ the suffering experienced by individuals during the apartheid regime in South Africa .”

With the retirement of experienced opening batsman Matthew Hayden — who was replaced by the uncapped 20 year-old Phillip Hughes — the Australian team that toured South Africa in February, March and April 2009 was its most inexperienced since since the defections to World Series Cricket.

During this period, 23 African nations experienced war: Algeria, Angola, Burundi, Central Africa Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo ( DRC ), Republic of Congo, Côte d ' Ivoire, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, and Uganda.

Having experienced stupendous growth since 1994, like the rest of urban South Africa, many businesses have relocated there, and property development is boosting the ever expanding city limits.

The 1910 tour to South Africa marked the official beginning of British and Irish rugby tours: the inaugural tour operating under all four unions.

Though Gondwana was still intact in the beginning of the Cretaceous, it broke up as South America, Antarctica and Australia rifted away from Africa ( though India and Madagascar remained attached to each other ); thus, the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans were newly formed.

Dutch Calvinist settlers were also the first successful European colonizers of South Africa, beginning in the 17th century, who became known as Boers or Afrikaners.

For several decades beginning in the 1940s, the largest producer of dynamite in the world was the Republic of South Africa.

Alexander the Great's conquest of the Achaemenid Empire marked the beginning of the Hellenistic period, which was characterized by a new wave of Greek colonization in Asia and Africa, with Greek ruling classes established in Egypt, southwest Asia and northwest India.

However, in southern Africa, the HIV epidemic beginning around 1990 has eroded national health.

As part of East Africa, the territory of what is now Kenya has seen human habitation since the beginning of the Lower Paleolithic.

Cushitic language-speaking people from northern Africa moved into the area that is now Kenya beginning around 2000 BC.

Bomhard ( 2008 ) suggests a differentiation of Proto-Nostratic by 8, 000 BCE, the beginning of the Neolithic Revolution in the Levant, over a territory spanning the entire Fertile Crescent and beyond into the Caucasus ( Proto-Kartvelian ), Egypt and along the Red Sea to the Horn of Africa ( Proto-Afroasiatic ), the Iranian Plateau ( Proto-Elamo-Dravidian ) and into Central Asia ( Proto-Eurasiatic, to be further subdivided by 5, 000 BCE into Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Uralic and Proto-Altaic ).

The Apartheid system enacted a nation-wide social policy " separate development " with the National Party victory in 1948, following the " colour bar "- discriminatory legislation dating back to the beginning of the Union of South Africa and the Boer republics before which, while repressive to black South Africans along with other minorities, had not gone nearly so far.

In Africa, since the beginning of the 1990s, the development of middle-class suburbs boomed.

The beginning of decolonization in Africa and Asia occurred in this decade and accelerated in the following decade, the 1960s.

* July 17 – The Army of Africa launches a coup d ' état against the Second Spanish Republic, beginning the Spanish Civil War.

This is the beginning of a 200-year long pandemic that will devastate Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.

From the 16th century, humans migrated from Europe, Africa and Asia to, what was to them, the New World, beginning the ever-accelerating process of globalization.

He was born around the beginning of the 3rd century in North Africa, perhaps at Carthage, where he received a classical education.

It proclaims Africa ( also " Zion ") as the original birthplace of mankind, and from the beginning of the movement the call to repatriation to Africa has been a central theme.

In June 533, Justinian sent an expeditionary force commanded by Belisarius which finally reached Africa in the beginning of September.

July 25, 1415 marked the beginning of the Portuguese Empire, when the Portuguese Armada departed to the rich trade Islamic centre of Ceuta in North Africa with King John I and his wife Phillipa of Lancaster and their sons Prince Duarte ( future king ), Prince Pedro, Prince Henry the Navigator ( born in Porto in 1394 ) and Prince Afonso, and legendary Portuguese hero Nuno Álvares Pereira.

The trip marked the beginning of the Portuguese exploration of Africa.

At the beginning of his reign the religious fervor which had sustained the Almoravide dynasty was rapidly subsiding ; in Portugal independent Moorish chiefs ruled over cities and petty taifa states, ignoring the central government ; in Africa the Almohades were destroying the remnants of the Almoravide power.

Arab invaders and Berber pirates came from North Africa to the Coast of Provence in the beginning of the 7th century.

Slavery was practiced in some parts of Africa, Europe, Asia and the Americas before the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade.